The best John Hancock’s comedy movies

John Hancock

John Hancock

04/03/1941- 12/10/1992
We present our ranking of the best John Hancock’s movies. Do you love cinema? Or are you looking for a movie of your favorite actor to watch tonight? Surely you have some to see or that you did not know yet about John Hancock.
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6.1/10
A Hollywood songwriter goes through a mid-life crisis and becomes infatuated with a sexy blonde newlywed.

Foul Play

Foul Play
6.8/10
A shy San Francisco librarian and a bumbling cop fall in love as they solve a crime involving albinos, dwarves, and the Catholic Church.

The Bonfire of the Vanities

The Bonfire of the Vanities
5.6/10
After his mistress runs over a black teen, a Wall Street hotshot sees his life unravel in the spotlight; A down-and-out reporter breaks the story and opportunists clamber to use it to their advantage.

City Heat

City Heat
5.5/10
  • Genre: ComedyCrime
  • Release: 05/12/1984
  • Character: Fat Freddy
Set in Kansas City in 1933, Eastwood plays a police lieutenant known simply by his last name, Speer. Reynolds plays a former cop turned private eye named Mike Murphy. Both Speer and Murphy served on the force together and were once good friends, but are now bitter enemies. When Murphy's partner is slain they team up again to fight the mob.

The Sting II

The Sting II
4.9/10
  • Genre: ComedyCrime
  • Release: 18/02/1983
  • Character: Doc Brown
Hooker and Gondorf pull a con on Macalinski, an especially nasty mob boss with the help of Veronica, a new grifter. They convince this new victim that Hooker is a somewhat dull boxer who is tired of taking dives for Gondorf. There is a ringer. Lonigan, their victim from the first movie, is setting them up to take the fall.

Tank

Tank
5.7/10
  • Genre: ActionComedy
  • Release: 16/03/1984
  • Character: Mess MSG Johnson
After relocating his family - and his prized restored Sherman tank - to a small Georgia town, Sargeant Major Zack Carey butts heads with the local sheriff. Zack doesn't agree with the ways of the local police, and when the sheriff goes after Zack's son, it's time for Zack to roll out the Sherman tank and wage a little war of his own.

First Family

First Family
4.3/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 25/12/1980
  • Character: President Mazai Kulundra
The president (Bob Newhart) and his boozing wife (Madeline Kahn) go to Africa to bargain for their abducted daughter's (Gilda Radner) return.

...All the Marbles

...All the Marbles
6.4/10
  • Genre: ComedyDrama
  • Release: 01/03/1981
  • Character: Big John Stanley
A two-bit promoter tries to take a women's wrestling team to the top.

Sundown: The Vampire in Retreat

Sundown: The Vampire in Retreat
6.1/10
  • Genre: ComedyHorror
  • Release: 18/05/1989
  • Character: Quinton Canada
Reclusive vampires lounge in a lonely American town. They wear sun cream to protect themselves. A descendant of Van Helsing arrives with hilarious consequences.

Collision Course

Collision Course
4.6/10
Tony Costas, a brash, obnoxious, sexist and racist Detroit cop who has long since stopped following the rules, gets told that he will have to work with Inspector Fuji, a straightlaced policeman from Japan. Fuji is in Detroit searching for a Japanese engineer who has gone to America with plans for a top secret car part. The pair naturally fail to get along at first, but as the investigation continues, they almost begin to come close to tolerating each other's presence.

Why Me?

Why Me?
5.8/10
A jewel thief steals a sacred ruby which sets off a chase by the police, the Turkish government, nutty American terrorists, and the CIA.

The Black Marble

The Black Marble
6.2/10
When alcoholic homicide investigator Valnikov is transferred to a burglary case that seems to involve a creepy dogcatcher, he's also given a new partner -- the pragmatic Sgt. Natalie Zimmerman, who's experiencing a midlife crisis and does not welcome Valnikov's company. But as these emotionally bruised cops are drawn deeper into the bizarre world of dog shows, animal fanatics and pet cemeteries, they're also drawn to each other.

Traxx

Traxx
5.3/10
  • Genre: ActionComedy
  • Release: 17/09/1988
  • Character: Chief Emmett Decker
Traxx has battled his way through El Salvador, the Middle East and Nicaragua, spitting lead with two-handed good grace. He decides to retire to a life of baking designer cookies. Running out of dough to buy more dough, he hires himself as a "Town Tamer" and begins cleaning up Hadleyville, Texas, telling the lowlife street scum, "You got three choices. Be good, be gone, or be dead." Like all bacteria, the scum are resistant: crime boss Aldo Palucci (Robert Davi) brings in the dreaded Guzik brothers to rid the town of the town tamer, setting the stage for a showdown in the streets.

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